The 82nd Annual Academy Award Winners
by Brian Eggert
03/07/2010
This year’s pre-Oscar buzz was filled with discussions about Avatar and The Hurt Locker and not much else. Both films were considered shoe-ins and both received some backlash in the weeks preceding the 82nd Annual Academy Awards ceremony. There was some misconduct in the way the filmmakers campaigned for their films, as well as some increasing distain for the filmmakers themselves (read: James Cameron and Jason Reitman). And after an underwhelming opening song, hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin offered some witty riffing on the night’s nominees. As usual, however, the show lost steam somewhere between the interpretive dancing and the lackluster horror homage (where was The Thing or anything by David Cronenberg?).
There were some mild upsets among the otherwise expected list of winners, mostly in the writing categories. (That Inglourious Basterds or A Serious Man didn’t win for Best Original Screenplay will go down as one of Oscar’s all-time robberies. Perhaps Quentin Tarantino, who also lost for Best Director and Best Picture, will remain one of those filmmaking greats who just isn’t recognized by the Academy.) The actors who won were expected to win. Some shockers: The White Ribbon losing Best Foreign Film; Avatar for cinematography when most of it was CGI; Sandra Bullock’s expected but undeserved win; The Hurt Locker for Best Picture. Some happy surprises: The Cove winning for Best Doc; Up’s many statues, much to this Pixar fan’s delight; Kathryn Bigelow is no longer underrated.
Below you’ll find a list of the winners. Celebrate or bewail as you will…
BEST PICTURE:
WINNER:
The Hurt Locker
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air
BEST DIRECTOR:
WINNER: Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker
James Cameron for Avatar
Lee Daniels for Precious
Jason Reitman for Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds
BEST ACTOR:
WINNER: Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart
George Clooney for Up in the Air
Colin Firth for A Single Man
Morgan Freeman for Invictus
Jeremy Renner for The Hurt Locker
BEST ACTRESS:
WINNER: Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side
Helen Mirren for The Last Station
Carey Mulligan for An Education
Gabourey Sidibe for Precious
Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
WINNER: Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds
Matt Damon for Invictus
Woody Harrelson for The Messenger
Christopher Plummer for The Last Station
Stanley Tucci for The Lovely Bones
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
WINNER: Mo'Nique for Precious
Penélope Cruz for Nine
Vera Farmiga for Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal for Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick for Up in the Air
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE:
WINNER:Up
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
WINNER: The Secret in Their Eyes (Argentina)
Ajami (Israel)
The White Ribbon (Germany)
A Prophet (France)
The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
WINNER: Geoffrey Fletcher for Precious
Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell for District 9
Nick Hornby for An Education
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche for In the Loop
Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner for Up in the Air
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
WINNER: Mark Boal for The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds
Oren Moverman, Alessandro Camon for The Messenger
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen for A Serious Man
Bob Peterson, Pete Docter for Up
BEST EDITING:
WINNER: The Hurt Locker, Bob Murawski, Chris Innis
Avatar, Stephen E. Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron
District 9, Julian Clarke
Inglourious Basterds, Sally Menke
Precious, Joe Klotz
BEST ART DIRECTION:
WINNER: Avatar, Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Anastasia Masaro
Nine, John Myhre
Sherlock Holmes, Sarah Greenwood
The Young Victoria, Patrice Vermette
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
WINNER: Avatar, Mauro Fiore
The White Ribbon, Christian Berger
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Bruno Delbonnel
The Hurt Locker, Barry Ackroyd
Inglourious Basterds, Robert Richardson
BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
WINNER: The Young Victoria, Sandy Powell
Bright Star, Janet Patterson
Coco avant Chanel, Catherine Leterrier
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Monique Prudhomme
Nine, Colleen Atwood
BEST SOUND EDITING:
WINNER: The Hurt Locker
Avatar
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up
BEST SOUND MIXING:
WINNER: The Hurt Locker
Avatar
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
WINNER: Avatar
District 9
Star Trek
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY:
WINNER: The Cove
Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land
Food, Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home
BEST MAKEUP:
WINNER: Star Trek
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The Young Victoria
BEST MUSIC SCORE:
WINNER: Up, Michael Giacchino
Avatar, James Horner
Fantastic Mr. Fox, Alexandre Desplat
The Hurt Locker, Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders
Sherlock Holmes, Hans Zimmer
BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
WINNER: "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart, T-Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham
"Loin de Paname" from Paris 36, Reinhardt Wagner, Frank Thomas
"Take It All" from Nine, Maury Yeston
"Down in New Orleans" from The Princess and the Frog, Randy Newman
"Almost There" from The Princess and the Frog, Randy Newman
BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT:
WINNER: The New Tenants
The Door
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Miracle Fish
BEST ANIMATED SHORT:
WINNER: Logorama
French Roast
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
La dama y la muerte
Wallace and Gromit in 'A Matter of Loaf and Death'
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT:
WINNER: Music by Prudence
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
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